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How courts could force big emitters to clean up their act

Jocelyn Timperley
clock 25 January 2016 •
How courts could force big emitters to clean up their act

ClientEarth's James Thornton says asking courts to issue rulings that force polluters to change their behaviour could be the way forward in the tricky arena of climate-related litigation

It's hard to fight a climate change case. First you need to convince the court to accept that human-caused climate change does indeed exist. Then you need to persuade it that this anthropogenic climate...

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